TY - BOOK AU - Beynon,Louise AU - Connelly,Rachel AU - Fan,C.Cindy AU - Gaetano,Arianne AU - Gaetano,Arianne M. AU - Jacka,Tamara AU - Lou,Binbin AU - Murphy,Rachel AU - Roberts,Kenneth D. AU - Short,Susan E. AU - Sun,Wanning AU - Tan,Lin AU - Xianlin,Song AU - Zheng,Tiantian AU - Zheng,Zhenzhen TI - On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China SN - 9780231127066 AV - HQ1767.O52 U1 - 307.240820951 PY - 2004///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - China KW - Social conditions KW - 1976- KW - Migration, Internal KW - Rural women KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - Essays KW - SOCIAL SCIENCEĀ / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women --; Part 1. Negotiating Identities --; 1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing --; 2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian --; 3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman --; Part 2. Seeking a Future --; 4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future --; 5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City --; Part 3. Changing Village Life --; 6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui --; 7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui --; 8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course --; Part 4. Writing Lives --; 9. Migrant Women's Stories --; 10. My Life as a Migrant Worker --; Glossary of Chinese Terms --; References --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/gaet12706 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231501736 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231501736/original ER -